u/theboaty

A few months ago my PC went down, it needs some new hardware and I haven't gotten around to it yet. in the meantime, I have been using my work laptop during off hours to access Xbox Cloud Gaming. Occasionally it would say site blocked, but only if another work related app was running... Until tonight.

I came back inside from smoking to continue playing when I got the disconnection notice, I refreshed the page, site blocked. I restarted and made sure chrome was the only app actively running, still blocked.

This makes me worried that I'm gonna be in trouble when I come into work tomorrow. But should I be worried? It was not during work hours using a reputable website owned by a billion dollar corporation, so I can't see why I would be reprimanded.

Yesterday when I went to start my PC, I got to the windows logo before the monitor went blank. I repeated this process until windows tried to repair itself. Now, I had this same issue once before a couple months back, and it required a fresh windows install to fix, so that was my first instinct. After going through the whole process, when it got to the point where I would boot into Windows, nothing. I repeated this process twice more, each time making less progress before hitting a black screen.

The only thing I can figure may have triggered the issue is that the day before, I tried to enable secure boot only to find that my SSD was no longer recognized, so I turned it back off and re-enabled CSM, which worked fine for that session.

System specs

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600

GPU: RX 5600XT

RAM; 16GB DDR4

PSU: 600W 80+ BRONZE

STORAGE: 500gb SATA SSD (BOOT DRIVE), 1TB EXTERNAL SSD, 2TB MECHANICAL DRIVE